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The permanent income hypothesis is a theory of consumer spending which assumes people spend money according to expected long-term average income.

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Many people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built on the same foundations as in the West. The ...

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The best Image Comics are things of beauty, and some of them have become extremely popular, taking over the world outside of comics and making their creators very wealthy.

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Nearly 20 years post-Oprah shaming, the ‘Million Little Pieces’ author talks to VF about finding joy in his money-drenched sex-romp murder mystery, ‘Next to Heaven.’ ...